Reposted by Susie Paints Abstractsdriftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 12/05/2026In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came." 91720390
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/03/2026We cannot allow our country’s history to be erased by this administration by a thousand little cuts. Black history is American history, and it must be protected and preserved for generations to come. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comMuseum that explores how enslaved people were freed sues over grant cancellationThe founders of an Underground Railroad history site in Albany, New York, claim the Trump administration’s funding cuts were aimed at marginalizing Black history. 08525
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsDr Paris Buttfield-Addison @hey.paris · 13/12/2025posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/hey.paris20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to AppleHere’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure. After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer, authoring technical books on Apple’s own programming languages (... 72980657
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Holy smokes— this exact thing happened to me. For a study I was participating in, I had to wait to initiate my checkpoint inhibitor treatment until some weeks after I had gotten my mRNA vaccine early in ‘21. Different cancer (Hormone+, HER2- breast cancer), but still. Exciting! 000
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsDr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 06/10/2025 1027183
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Oh, man. I really feel like I missed an opportunity. Related: what’s the word for the grief you feel for a person you never knew existed until they’ve just now been gathered to glory? 021
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Sounds like you were corresponding with three AI bots in a trenchcoat 000
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025It’s giving Scrooge on Christmas Eve. 010
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a 1481325076551
Reposted by Susie Paints Abstractssianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 26/04/2025No degenerate art 911323375
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Hey to all my BlueSky friends—I’m having a first ever solo show for my abstract painting. You are all warmly invited to the opening on Saturday, May 3, 3:00-6:00 at Touchstone Gallery in Washington DC! Any fired/furloughed/tormented public servants will get the extra special VIP treatment. 050
Reposted by Susie Paints Abstractsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States 5403962613159
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Workshopping this sign for the next protest—how can I make the punchline work better? 030
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 05/04/2025Donald Trump’s tariffs are the biggest tax hike in American history on working families, plain and simple.axios.comTrump tariffs would hit lower-income Americans hardestTariffs are another blow to people struggling with higher prices. 331409316
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit. 183135624627
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Read and learn, universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Universities Should Not be Afraid of Contentious Ideas (Gift Article)Higher education cannot cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas. 000
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Absolutely 100% this! How ‘bout we stop electing people whose only skill set is wrecking things. 000
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 31/03/2025The last three Republican presidents wrecked the economy. The last three Democratic presidents had to fix things. newrepublic.com/article/1933...newrepublic.comOf Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do.As the president’s “Liberation Day” nears, it’s time to liberate ourselves from the vicious cycle of Democrats having to clean up the GOP’s messes. 471193445
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025For the past thirty years, I’ve vaguely thought that Reed Hundt, Reed Hastings and @reidhoffman.bsky.social were the same person. Thanks for bearing witness to my extremely niche epiphany! 000
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsEileen B @echobravoart.bsky.social · 29/03/2025a haiku white dudes mad at mid i inform them they are mid a vicious cycle 0673
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Eugenics five-alarm fire, people. It’s happening. If you aspire to be old one day, or are/will be in the majority with chronic illness and/or disabilities, know that you, too, are on the chopping block. 120
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsDavid Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The reason DEI exists is so that competent, qualified people don't get passed over in favor of mediocre incompetent white men who had a well-connected buddy. Or so that utter morons who share war plans on the group chat don't hire their brother and get away with it bc they're white dudes. 163106162610
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsSusie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I kind of like it—it looks like those 18th century American portraits. img.encore-editions.com/small-archiv... 001
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The resistance is undeniably growing. But will it get big enough, and if so, how quickly? www.headsupnews.org/p/wanted-12-...headsupnews.orgWanted: 12 million protestersThe goal for anti-Trump activists is to mobilize 3.5 percent of the U.S. population 414735
Reposted by Susie Paints Abstractsmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/03/2025i suspect Mar-A-Lago will go down as one of our generation's infamous international spy hubs, the same way Cold War Berlin or World War 2 Campione d'Italia were. There's probably spies installing listening devices who are finding other spies' listening devices already there. 502849476
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Would like to report some gang tattoos. 89367227623
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025All this business I am reading about social security is nonsense. My mom died on 2/18. My dad got a letter yesterday informing him her benefits were ending and he had to repay the February payment because they don’t give a payment in the month someone dies. They know where every dollar is. 580127372328
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsDr. Steve Mallory @drstevemallory.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Fascism is DEI for white men That's it. 092
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities. 3556021894
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Oh so CEOs can count "personal" stuff as part of their workweek while everyone else has to use PTO or just not get paid if they have a doctor's appointment. Work out? On your own time, plebes. Take that out and there's 35 hours, 18 of which are meetings and 5 are business dinners 1224567
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025A neat illustration of who is on what side in this. 14464221231
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Well, if every day they serve up pieces excoriating Trump’s tariffs and crony capitalism & the monopolistic practices of the current crop of techno-feudal robber barons…I could go on. Civil rights of all kinds. Freedom of speech. An op-ed page could keep awful busy with malicious compliance. 010
Reposted by Susie Paints Abstractsdan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/02/2025In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202… 735248117191
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025@mollyploofkins.bsky.social Would you be so kind as to post this thread here? Doing my best to stay off meta! 030
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2025🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work. 12846781193
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 12/02/2025They let you give feedback, too. 78811
Susie Paints Abstracts @susandykeman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Over $4 billion comes to Maryland. That’s a lot of jobs, and an irreplaceable treasure of scientific knowledge. 163
Reposted by Susie Paints AbstractsElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Never imagined I’d have to say this, but if you want to have a look at NIH RePORTER to see how much NIH funding your state receives so you can write to your elected representatives, you’d better do it now, and get a screenshot. 79806493